San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-19

for hours with no other fuel
than the garbage and sewerage
q city. This experiment Was
successfully tried st the tannery OF
Messrs. Galloway Il Co, Pittsburg, who
are using one Of these furnaces for gen
Grating steam. This firm burns the re-
fuse tanhsrk, fresh from the watts, con
tanning GO per cent. OF water, and with
this fuel aIOne generates steam sufficient
for all purposes. over their own sigma
lures they certify that their entire cost
Of fuel ( ra year outside uf this refuse
bark does not amount to 500. IL would
be practically nothing were the hres
properly banked, but as the furnace
must have small fire started TO gener-
ate the gas until that gas itself becomes
the fuel, this expense has been Incurred.
By way Of experiment. under direction
OF Committe OF the Pittsburg council
and board OF health, this furnace was
fed for two and half hours with de-
cayed watPrmelOns, fruits and Vege-
tables from the garbage 81 the city, the
contents of vaults and cess pools, cattle
manure and the Offal from Strengthening
houses, wet and dry, solid and liquid.
and during those two hours and half
there WAS not a diminutiOn OF steam as
Indicated by the steam guage.
ELECTRIC LIGHT AND GAS.
have seen, said the Colonel, and
carefully Investigated gas company
which furnished light under the old
scrubbing process that actually cost 81 W
per thousand and | have seen one man
and boy nineteen years old furnish
that same gas for 22t cents per thousand
by using an improved method OF genera
ton and manufacture. | have seen one
company furnish four cities with this
gas, under this improved process, coal
gas, and the actual cost was only 22t
cents per 1000. 1t Is change that can
readily be made by any of the old com
psnies by securing the right TO use the
patent, and the changes required would
rot exceed 5000.
| regard Detroit as the best lighted
city in the United States. The style of
its electric lights lie that known ms the
Thompson Houston. There Is no gas
used in the streets. At night the whole
city, everywhere, alleys and back
streets, Is nearly as light rs we are here
under bright, clOudless full moon.
OTHER MATTERS.
have looked up street rollers and
rock crushers, among other things.
Rock Crushers, which will do the work
for this city, have seen in use, and If
we put In garbage furnaces the steam
power for running the Orushers is right
there.
have Investigated water supply and
found on the banks o the Ohio and the
Mississippi cities that were using the
waters Of these rivers, and they were
oh hV a
scientific process OF filtering on large
scale, which seems to leave little to be
desired.
Pure water and pure air, are the great
objects OF municipal search in our large
cTles today, and all efforts are being
turned that way.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Washington lie the finest city in the
world as a residence for wealthy men,
and that is what II ia becoming. The
board Of public works of that city has
upon ii three Of the finest engineers 10
the u. ). A. These men are way up IN
their professions and abreast Of tue
latest scientific research. In COusulta-
tiOn with them | find that they will
petition the general government this
winter for the use of the very same
garbage furnaces that | will recommend
to the council Of this city.
TEXAs TAKES THE CAKE.
From June Is to July 10 was travel
ing necessarily, and suffered intensely
from the almost intolerable heat. There
was no relief, night or day. The at
mOsphere was furnace until | struck
the broad prairies of the Indian terri
tory and Texas. 1t is n mistake for our
people to 70 north during the heated
term. Never saw crops in texas look
ing better until San Marcos was reached;
FROM there south the ground is parOhed
and vegetation almost dead. Put Texas
down as good for II top crop Of cotton,
and corn. Prohibition kills business. This
agitation is hurting the stste, and there
will be no change until the whole ques-
lion Ia settled People are waiting to
see the issue before committing them
selves to Texas investments.
Finding the Colonel turning his eys
somewhat turtively TO the piles Of pa
Ders and columns of figures on his table,
The LIGHT scribe acknowledged the
courtesy of his reception and departed.
THE COL, IN ST. LOUIS
In this connection it may not be out
Of place to reproduce clipping from
the st. Louis Republican of the 18th
inst. which will give some Idea of how
he Colonel sets up the city Of his pride,
and Of which he is so worthy Il repre-
sentative while in foreign municipality.
Speaking of San Antonio last night,
Col. Belknsp said: Cur city has a
bright future before Ii in my estima-
tiOn. Situated in a country of unsur
passed fertility, and In glorious eli
mate, with excellent transportation ia
cilities, and enterprisiDg citizens to
take the benefit Of these adj
it is bound to grow.
am opposed TO a boom.
1t is an artificial prosperity
and is bound to react | prefer a
steady, healthy growth or none. San
Antonio has had no boom, but she Is
growing rapidly and subs antially and is
already the metropolis of Texas, having
4 population of $1,000. As a health
resort Ii is equal to Southern California
and better than Florida, and will some
day rival that country In popularity.
The quaintness and plcturesqueness Of
The old part OF the city, together with
the climate, will make ii favOrite
place for tourists. But aside from its
and healthfulness 1t has
many commercial advantages. The
Mexican International railroad will
make connections with the Mexican
Central about September 10, and then
San Antonio will be the central point
between st. Louis and the City of Mex
co, by this new route which will cue of
900 miles from the present one by way
IF El PasO. One Of the improvements of
he present year In Onr city will be a
100000 city hall.
Russia persists in visiting Bulgaria
With her displeasure, because the old
which stood so herOically in
he breach at the time of AleXandera